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Multilingual Books November Newsletter

Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. This is also available as a web page at our website, www.multilingualbooks.com. In this issue: Featured Article - Pashto: The Language of Afghanistan. Language News - Site of the Month and more. Ask The Expert - New! Ask a question of our language expert and win a gift certificate! Product News - FSI Arabic Course on CD. Only from Multilingual Books! Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers! Send to a Friend Please send this along to anyone you think might be interested by clicking the link above. Unsubscribe Information This newsletter is intended as a service to language enthusiasts and customers of Multilingual Books. You have received this because our records indicate you have ordered products from us or have asked to join our mailing list. If this message was unwanted, we apologize and will be happy to remove your address from our list. If you would like to unsubscribe for any reason, you can unsubscribe by web form, or by sending an e-mail request.		Featured This Issue
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Featured Article

Pashto: The Official Language of Afghanistan

As Afghanistan has returned yet again to the fore of international affairs, let's take a brief look at the language of the Afghani people, Pashto. Pashto, also known in the English world as Pushtu or Pukhto, is the major language of Afghanistan and is spoken by over 8 million people. It is also spoken in parts of Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries. Pashto is an Indo-European language as is Farsi, and is written in a similar script. In fact another major language spoken in Afghanistan is Dari, a close relative of Farsi. Multilingual Books has some useful Pashto resources available, and has just added some titles. If you want a quick online dictionary, try the York University Online Pashto Dictionary at:
https://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/pashto/pashlex1.html.
This Romanized list of over 1,000 Pashto words with English equivalents was taken from the glossary of a now out-of-print 1955 grammar book.

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Language News

Site of the Month
The Rosetta Project: https://www.rosettaproject.org
In only a century's time, over half of all existing languages will have completely disappeared. Many of these languages have neither written grammars, nor pronunciation guides in audio format. When these materials do exist, they are often out of print and very hard to locate. The Rosetta Project is mainly interested in the preservation of existing languages and especially those on the decline. This resource lists over 1,000 active languages and gives detailed descriptions, origin and current distribution of languages, numbers of speakers, families, typologies, histories, etc. It is a great resource to all those interested in language.

Interesting Language Facts

• Percentage of world's children raised as bilingual speakers: 66 percent.
• Percentage of US residents who are bilingual: 6.3 percent.

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Do you have a question to ask Rodman Reynolds, our resident linguist? If we choose your question, we will print the answer in our next newsletter and you will receive a $25 gift certificate good towards any purchase from multilingualbooks.com.
Ask The Expert by e-mail at: asktheexpert@translation.net

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Product News

FSI Arabic Course on CD - Only from Multilingual Books! Multilingual Books is proud to announce the publication of the first intensive course for learning Arabic on audio CD. Based on the popular Foreign Service Institute Course that is successfully used by thousands of students to learn conversational Arabic, the course is a thorough and structured method for complete beginners and experienced language students alike. This course was created by the Foreign Service Institute to teach diplomats and serious language learners the skills necessary to converse in Arabic quickly and efficiently. The course features over 10 hours of audio and includes a textbook with a detailed script of the audio and many useful drills and supplemental exercises. Multilingual Books has also improved the overall sound quality of the course substantially as compared to the cassette version. Multilingual Books FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course - Urban Hijazi Dialect Special! Buy this course before Nov 10th and use promo code FAC1026 to save $40! For ordering and more information, please visit our Arabic page.

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November Newsletter Specials

FSI Arabic Course on CD - Only from Multilingual Books! For a limited time, receive $40 off on our new FSI Arabic course on CD. This is the proven Foreign Service Institute course, formerly available only on cassette. Use promo code FAC1026 when ordering to receive your special. For ordering and more information, please visit our Arabic page.

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Newsletter Special - Free Gift Certificates! Make a $50 purchase before Nov. 3, 2001 and we will send you a $20 gift certificate good for anything on our website. Make a $100 purchase before Nov. 3 and we will send you a $40 gift certificate. Makes a great Christmas present! Please use promo code MBC1026 to receive your special. Visit our site at www.multilingualbooks.com to place your order and take advantage of this very limited-time offer.

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